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Autopsy Studies Rule out Myocarditis From SARS-CoV-2 Infection
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By Dr. Peter A. McCullough and John Leake
2/17/2024Updated: 2/18/2024

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I have heard numerous public health officials state that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than COVID-19 vaccination. The American College of Cardiology has used this platform as a twisted rationale for giving out COVID-19 vaccines, and in a perverted manner, creating more myocarditis in the population.

If SARS-CoV-2 infection caused myocarditis or inflammation of heart muscle tissue, then it would be seen on autopsy in fatal cases of COVID-19. Poloni et al specifically examined the hearts of fatal COVID-19 cases and concluded the virus does not infect the heart.

Poloni TE, Moretti M, Medici V, Turturici E, Belli G, Cavriani E, Visonà SD, Rossi M, Fantini V, Ferrari RR, Carlos AF, Gagliardi S, Tronconi L, Guaita A, Ceroni M. COVID-19 Pathology in the Lung, Kidney, Heart and Brain: The Different Roles of T-Cells, Macrophages, and Microthrombosis. Cells. 2022 Oct 4;11(19):3124. doi: 10.3390/cells11193124. PMID: 36231087; PMCID: PMC9563269.

Poloni TE, Moretti M, Medici V, Turturici E, Belli G, Cavriani E, Visonà SD, Rossi M, Fantini V, Ferrari RR, Carlos AF, Gagliardi S, Tronconi L, Guaita A, Ceroni M. COVID-19 Pathology in the Lung, Kidney, Heart and Brain: The Different Roles of T-Cells, Macrophages, and Microthrombosis. Cells. 2022 Oct 4;11(19):3124. doi: 10.3390/cells11193124. PMID: 36231087; PMCID: PMC9563269.

Another autopsy study of fatal COVID-19 pneumonia by Maccio, et al found inflammation of the small capillaries serving the heart called endotheliitis but not the heart muscle tissue itself (no myocarditis shown in Figure 6 panel a). This distinguished COVID-19 from influenza which had no inflammation of blood vessels or heart muscle. But importantly, Maccio, et al did NOT find myocarditis in COVID-19 cases.

Maccio U, Zinkernagel AS, Shambat SM, Zeng X, Cathomas G, Ruschitzka F, Schuepbach RA, Moch H, Varga Z. SARS-CoV-2 leads to a small vessel endotheliitis in the heart. EBioMedicine. 2021 Jan;63:103182. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103182. Epub 2021 Jan 7. PMID: 33422990; PMCID: PMC7808909.

Maccio U, Zinkernagel AS, Shambat SM, Zeng X, Cathomas G, Ruschitzka F, Schuepbach RA, Moch H, Varga Z. SARS-CoV-2 leads to a small vessel endotheliitis in the heart. EBioMedicine. 2021 Jan;63:103182. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103182. Epub 2021 Jan 7. PMID: 33422990; PMCID: PMC7808909.

So the next time you see an advertisement by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes more myocarditis than the vaccines, as a means of minimizing risks with the injections, remember the virus does not infect the heart and does not cause myocarditis with the primary infection. These are false claims made from automated hospital data and not adjudicated, autopsy-proven cases.

The COVID-19 vaccines install mRNA in the heart and the Spike protein directly damages and incites inflammation into the heart muscle causing the pathophysiology we see every day in cardiology practice. As Poloni and Maccio have shown, SARS-CoV-2 does not infect the heart muscle or cause myocarditis.

Reposted from Peter A. McCullough Substack

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Poloni TE, Moretti M, Medici V, Turturici E, Belli G, Cavriani E, Visonà SD, Rossi M, Fantini V, Ferrari RR, Carlos AF, Gagliardi S, Tronconi L, Guaita A, Ceroni M. COVID-19 Pathology in the Lung, Kidney, Heart and Brain: The Different Roles of T-Cells, Macrophages, and Microthrombosis. Cells. 2022 Oct 4;11(19):3124. doi: 10.3390/cells11193124. PMID: 36231087; PMCID: PMC9563269.

Maccio U, Zinkernagel AS, Shambat SM, Zeng X, Cathomas G, Ruschitzka F, Schuepbach RA, Moch H, Varga Z. SARS-CoV-2 leads to a small vessel endotheliitis in the heart. EBioMedicine. 2021 Jan;63:103182. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.103182. Epub 2021 Jan 7. PMID: 33422990; PMCID: PMC7808909.

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Dr. McCullough is a practicing internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist in Dallas, Texas. He studies the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developed from COVID vaccines. He has dozens of peer-reviewed publications on COVID, multiple U.S. and state Senate testimonies, and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID crisis on major media outlets.
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John Leake studied history and philosophy with Roger Scruton at Boston University. He then went to Vienna, Austria on a graduate school scholarship and ended up living in the city for over a decade, working as a freelance writer and translator. He is a true crime writer with a lifelong interest in medical history and forensic medicine.

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